Real estate companies can be tenants too, and when they are tenants in a smart building the technology can influence their decisions in the same way it does for their real estate clients. That’s what is happening in a four-story building near Schiphol airport, just outside Amsterdam, where $14.2-billion real estate services firm CBRE is reconsidering its own office space needs after gaining insight from its recent smart lighting installment. CBRE has been trialing some 400 ceiling luminaires from Aurora, outfitted with chips and sensors from Gooee, a company developing enabling technologies for lighting-centric Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The lighting installment is spread over an area of 4000m2 that covers the entire second floor, occupied by 80 employees, and was meant as a trial for the firm who intended to expand their office over the entire first floor of the building too. The data produced during the trial, however, has demonstrated that they only […]